Making sense of research funding in UK higher education

This factsheet explains the basics of the dual support system and summarises recent moves to ensure the full costs of research are funded and to reform the research assessment system.

It might usefully be read in conjunction with another RIN information booklet, on Government and research policy in UK. We hope that, between them, these publications will help to provide for researchers and others a useful oversight of the policy context affecting the research information environment, and the world of Higher Education more broadly.

The factsheet is available below, along with a document setting out the sources for the ﬁnancial information.